Reinforced clothing component and method of making same
OwnerPaul G. Petersoninventor
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Abstract
This disclosure has to do with the stiffening of clothing components, such as collars, cuffs, etc. which, in the past, has been effected by means of separately formed stiffening elements. In lieu of providing a separately formed stiffening element which must be separately incorporated within the clothing part, it is proposed to provide a component of the clothing part with a coating of thermoplastics material which is applied in a preselected pattern to provide the desired stiffness. This eliminates the necessity of separately formed elements which, in turn, eliminates the necessity of maintaining a supply of such elements and the separate incorporation thereof in a clothing part.
Claims9
A method of reinforcing an article of clothing such as a shirt collar and cuffs, said method comprising the steps of forming a clothing component in a customary manner, applying a reinforcing coating of heated thermoplastics material to the formed clothing component in a definite preselected pattern to accomplish the desired reinforcement, then incorporating the clothing component with another clothing component in the making of an article, and the thermoplastics material being self-bonding to the first-mentioned and another clothing component.
A reinforced clothing component comprising a conventional clothing component customarily incorporated with other clothing components to form a flexible article of clothing and wherein a separate reinforcement member is normally associated with said conventional clothing components, said conventional clothing component being improved by having adhered thereto a reinforcement in the form of a solid layer of reinforcing thermoplastics material applied thereto as a coating in a definite preselected reinforcing pattern with the thermoplastics material being self-bonding to said conventional clothing component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.